"I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could."

-- James Taylor

#Pretending Quotes #Songwriting Quotes

“For a relative newcomer, it's obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That's a dream.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Everything new stalls because there is precedence for the old”
“When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.”
“I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.”
“Mine alone is the country of my soul.”
“I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.”

Source : FaceBook post by Steven Millhauser from Oct 23, 2016
“To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.”
“I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject, the interviewee - actually tend to hold steady much more consistently in rural Africa than they do in the American inner city.”

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